I agree that we should minute at least some reason for declining. It need only be a sentence or two.
(BTW I wasn't at that discussion.) {phone} On Sep 20, 2014 3:17 AM, "Asmus Freytag" <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On 9/19/2014 5:38 PM, Whistler, Ken wrote: > >> Michael, >> >> "Declines to take action” is pretty thin. >>> >> A proposal which is declined by the UTC doesn't automatically >> create an obligation to write an extended dissertation explaining >> the rationale and putting that rationale on record. It might be >> one thing if there were a lot of controversy involved, and one >> group of participants asked for a rationale to be recorded, >> despite not having a consensus to move on something -- but >> this one wasn't even close. Nobody in the committee felt >> encoding was justified in this case. >> >> And not every mark on paper -- not even every mark *printed* >> in typeset material on paper -- is automatically an obvious >> candidate for encoding with a simple, plain text character >> representation. >> > > True, but a rationale (note that's not necessarily a dissertation) never > hurts. > > "Declines to take action” may look like it is equivalent to "Nobody in the > committee felt > encoding was justified in this case", but it really isn't. The former > allows for all sorts of non-substantive reasons, but the latter is pretty > clear: the submitter failed to make the case. > > What you are looking for is something equivalent to "summary dismissal" of > a legal action, but even there this usually gets some rationale or it has > the benefit of a standardized legal principle (don't know for a fact, but > sounds plausible). > > > > A./ > >> >> --Ken >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> Unicode@unicode.org >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >
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